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  1. List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
    3: {| {{prettytable}}
    87: | [[Massachusetts]]
    88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
    129: | [[1964]] — [[1966]]
  2. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    15: ...tains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be c...
    16: ...d|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
    17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published.
    25: ...[Erwin Rommel]] leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
    28: * [[1956]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] troops invade [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungar...
  3. Burundi (13403 bytes)
    41: ...me_zone = [[Eastern European Time|EET]] |
    42: utc_offset = +2 |
    44: utc_offset_DST = +2 |
    56: Until the downfall of monarchy in 1966, kingship remained one of last links that bound B...
    58: ...mitien Ndayizeye]] replaced Buyoya as President. Yet the most extreme Hutu group, Palipehutu-FNL (comm...
  4. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
    56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
    91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the cente...
    103: ...ahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete
    104: *[[Joze Abram|Abram, Joze]], (1875-1938), poet
  5. List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
    21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
    42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
    60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
    65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
    71: ...dams (footballer)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1966), athlete
  6. List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
    3: *[[Sin Ai|Ai, Sin]], poet
    9: ...], (1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
    11: *[[Conrad Aiken|Aiken, Conrad]], (1889-1973), poet
    16: *[[Troy Aikman|Aikman, Troy]], (born 1966), [[American football]] star
    19: *[[Danny Ainge|Ainge, Danny]], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player
  7. Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
    10: ...e Week"'' for spreading lies about the "Cliveden Set."
    12: ...stic song to the tune of the haunting [[Marlene Dietrich]] song ''Lili Marlene'' that they called "The...
    18: ...William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor]] (1907-1966)
  8. Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
    25: | [[January 19]], [[1966]]
    51: ...[Prime Minister of India]] from [[January 19]], [[1966]] to [[March 24]], [[1977]], and from [[January 1...
    57: ...in, what was at that time, a very patriarchal society, Indira was expected to be a passive leader, but...
    59: ... doll), as people thought that she would be a puppet in the hands of other Congress leaders. But she p...
    63: ...ppointment, she created "notoriously weak" [[cabinet]]s, centralizing her own personal authority in a ...
  9. Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
    1: ...e name of an English poet, see [[Mary Robinson (poet)]]''
    23: ... [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]] after a career as a judge in the Colonial S...
    25: ..., founded by [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]] and once a [[Protestant]], [[Unionist]] bast...
    41: ...ttle, Wood Quay was ultimately bulldozed and concreted over, to build the controversial Civic Offices....
    43: ...had signed with the British Government of [[Margaret Thatcher]]. Robinson argued that unionist politic...
  10. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    2: ...+ style="font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
    24: |'''Retirement honour:'''
    27: ...cknamed the '''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to ...
    29: ...r also dispatched a [[Royal Navy]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in...
    31: ...itain's economic performance. Supporters of Margaret Thatcher assert that [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite]] ...
  11. Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
    8: ...en up. Some of its members managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these groups.
    10: .... After fleeing to [[Switzerland]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she attended [[Zurich Universi...
    14: ...ndent Poland. Luxemburg denied the right of self-determination for nations under [[socialism]], which ...
    16: ... life, Luxemburg was to remain the principal theoretician of the Polish Social Democrats, and led the ...
    19: ...y changes in the whole environment of production methods occurred. She wanted the Revisionists to leav...
  12. Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
    1: ...mage:MargaretSanger-Underwood.LOC.jpg|thumb|Margaret Sanger.]]
    2: ...merican]] [[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won t...
    7: ...hat Every Girl Should Know." Distributing a pamphlet, ''Family Limitation'', to poor women, Sanger rep...
    9: ...pe prosecution. However, the following year, she returned to the U.S. and resumed her activities, laun...
    13: ...gal birth control clinic in the US (renamed Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). Tha...
  13. Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
    1: ...st significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
    7: She married the poet [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born...
    9: ...eral poems written in the form of correspondence between the two.
    11: ...940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 1966.
    13: ...heremetev Palace]] in [[St Petersburg, Russia|St Petersburg]]), where Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1...
  14. Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
    8: ... complete her secondary education, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married...
    10: ...ghter Paula was born in 1963. In 1966, Allende returned to Chile, and her son Nicol᳠was born there...
    14: ... wake of a violent coup and died of his wounds (whether from murder or suicide is a matter of controve...
    16: ..., was on his deathbed. She started writing him a letter that later evolved into a book manuscript, ''[...
    18: ...uring a visit to [[California]] in 1988, Allende met her current husband, Willie Gordon, and has lived...
  15. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    1: [[image:Margaret_Atwood.jpg|right|framed|Margaret Atwood]]
    2: ...laces in North America and around the world, she returned to Toronto, where she currently lives. She i...
    4: ...ian fiction]], a theme that shows up both in the settings and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[n...
    6: ...effect. She ranks as a key figure in [[Canadian poetry]], especially as one of [[Toronto]]'s new voice...
    10: ...'', was included in the French version of the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]].
  16. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
    11: ...apitalism]]. Her novels were based upon the [[archetype]] of the Randian [[hero]], a man whose ability...
    19: ...munist]] message, attracting the attention of Soviet officials). There is a story told that she named ...
    28: ...as Shrugged]]'' is often seen as Rand's most complete statement of Objectivist philosophy in any of he...
    33: ...ganda]] by U.S. patriots, trying to put their Soviet allies in [[World War II]] under the best possibl...
  17. Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
    4: ...st pilot. In the 1930s she became fairly famous, setting many [[glider]] aerobatic and endurance recor...
    6: ...affe]] testing center at [[Rechlin]] by [[Ernst Udet]]. While under direct command of Karl Franke she ...
    8: ... the jet-propelled [[Messerschmitt Me 163]] ''Komet'', and several larger [[bomber]]s on which she te...
    12: ...r laying out plans for Nazi commanders to join together in mass suicide when it was obvious that the w...
    16: ...pionship in Spain (and was the only woman who competed).
  18. Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
    3: ...h 6]], [[1937]]), is a retired [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the first woman...
    5: ...red applicants, five were selected: [[Tatiana Kuznetsova]], [[Irina Solov'yova]], [[Zhanna Yerkina]], ...
    7: ...ghts it took 19 years until the second woman, [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] flew into space. None of the oth...
    9: ...ee of the Communist Party]]. In [[1997]] she was retired from the [[VVS|air force]] and the cosmonaut ...
  19. Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
    3: ...'''. She graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]] from [[Vassar College]] with a bachelor'...
    9: She later returned to the Navy where she worked on validation s...
    12: ...eserve with the rank of Commander at the end of [[1966]]. She was recalled to active duty in August of ...
    16: ... By [[1985]] she became a [[rear admiral]]. She retired (involuntarily) from the Navy in [[1986]].
    18: ...[Digital Equipment Corporation]], a position she retained until her death in [[1992]]. Her primary ac...
  20. Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
    4: ...ck]] and the chemist [[Otto Hahn]]. She worked together with Hahn for 30 years, each of them leading a...
    10: ...te President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan Project]].
    12: ...ed the Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949.

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